Quotable Mathematics

"The concept of bifurcation, present in the context of non-linear dynamic systems and theory of chaos, refers to the transition between...

"Visualizations can be used to explore data, to confirm a hypothesis, or to manipulate a viewer. [...] In exploratory visualization the...

  "Prediction of the future is possible only in systems that have stable parameters like celestial mechanics. The only reason why predi...

"The essential feature is that we express ignorance of whether the new parameter is needed by taking half the prior probability for it ...